Posted on 06/12/2014 2:07:24 PM PDT by andyk
I really wanted Opus Delecti to mean delicious opus, but it doesn't.
In almost 16 years, this is my first vanity. And all I can muster is to post it in bloggers and personal, where it ostensibly belongs. Vanities were against the rules, and as a date once told me, I'm a rule follower. Nobody will miss me when I'm gone. In fact, I know many folks will rejoice.
There are many folks I will miss, once zotted. I'll miss the kitty pings, most of all. I'll miss the quiet solitude of Lurker and the crazy shenanigans of Laz. I always wanted to be like them. And I would totally hit that.
I loved the FR. It was my home. You shouldn't crap in your home (see what I did there, admin mod?). But I did on several occasions. I tried to be contrite. I was whipped into shape by many of you fine folks. There are certainly a lot of learned jerks here.
This board is one of the most amazing I've experienced in my short span of 41 years. Who knew I would go from the impeachment to Benghazi without experiencing life? Why on earth would it take me this long to understand what is really important?
Don't be me. Don't eke out an existence while your dreams languish. It's time to create new dreams. Some people say that happiness is a choice. When I'm in public I choose wisely. When in my castle, I choose poorly. Very poorly.
I'm a morbidly obese man. It pains me to admit that. Boy do I tire of the fat jokes on this board. But I get it. There's nothing redeeming about abusing ones body. There's nothing redeeming about mocking God. I'm really sorry, and I'm trying to change.
I look at some of the achievements in my life and they're all so trite. Platitudinous.
Who doesn't want to do great things? Who doesn't want to leave the world a better place than we found it? But there's got to be a greater calling, and being here just twists me up in knots. So many arguments, so much disparity when we have so much in common.
I just don't get it. Why is it so easy for the liberals to coalesce, and so difficult for us? Why is it when the liberals say they want to increase spending by 10%, we say, no, how about 5%? Why don't we say what we mean and tell them that we want to eliminate that department entirely? What is wrong with us?
What I have learned is that compromise means always moving leftward. And I don't see that changing. I see nothing positive in store for our republic, and it makes me sad.
Sometimes, I actually miss A+Bert and Eschoir.
Andy
Damn.
Some encouragement:
Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.
— Samuel Adams
If any should say, it is in vain for them as individuals to be vigilant, zealous and firm in pursuing any measures for the security of our rights, unless all would unite: I would reply: Ages are composed of seconds, the earth of sands, and the sea of drops, too small to be seen by the naked eye. The smallest particles have their influence.
Such is our state, that each individual has a proportion of influence on some neighbor at least; he, on another, and so on; as in a river, the following drop urges that which is before, and every one through the whole length of the stream has like influence.
We know not, what individuals may do. We are not at liberty to lie dormant until we can, at once, influence the whole. We must begin with the weight we have. Should the little springs neglect to flow till a general agreement should take place, the torrent that now bears down all before it, would never be formed.
These mighty floods have their rise in single drops from the rocks, which, uniting, creep along till they meet with another combination so small that it might be absorbed by the travelers foot. These unite, proceed, enlarge, till mountains tremble at their sound.
Let us receive instruction from the streams, and without discouragement, pursue a laudable plan.
— Nathaniel Niles
“Forewarned, forearmed, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
— Frederick Douglass, “The Nation’s Problem,” 1890
I attacked him? I think you do not understand what that word means.
Seriously, no matter what happens in this world, God is still in charge and if you put your trust in Him, the world cannot defeat you.
Is there an alternative meaning to: Grow up.?
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=grow+up
On it's own, it's considered a interjection, which is normally interpreted as "stop acting childishly".
Was it really necessary to take a parting shot at him?
Good advice, but I'll add one thing: if you are morbidly obese, consult a doctor before embarking on a major diet change.
However, I wouldn't consider surgery unless nothing else works. I think there are two many risks to any surgery to do it "first".
Ok, you and I just had a disagreement in open forum. Will you also post an opus because of it? andy did.
So if you also do the same, I will also take you to task for overreacting.
What, no #HashTag? ;)
Did he? Or did you just assume he did, and use the opportunity to take a parting shot at him, knowing he wouldn't respond?
So if you also do the same, I will also take you to task for overreacting.
I don't think it was andy that overreacted. He isn't the one taking parting shots as he bid goodbye.
What do you mean “Did he”? Of course he did. I assume nothing. Except I do assume you didn’t click the link in my post 7.
I was on that thread posting with Andy. So I know what you don’t. And so the next time you go accusing someone of “attacking” someone else, be sure you know what you’re talking about.
And I suspect you are dancing with glee because you think you "forced a long-time member into leaving FR", just because he had the audacity to disagree with you.
Except I do assume you didnt click the link in my post 7.
No, I didn't follow your link. I looked at his posting history over the past few weeks, and I saw the usual set of FR bullies piling on him. It wasn't just that thread.
FMCDH(BITS)
Quidam.
His name was Quidam.....
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